Authomatic internet connection

[Max]

Hi, i'm a new Python-enthusiast. Really GREAT language, i'm having much fun
with it!!!
(Sorry, but i had to communicate this to the whole world... :) )

Now, a little question: i wrote a very simple script that sends an
authomatic e-mail message using smtplib. Short, simple and working!
I would like to know if someone knows how to automatically connect to
Internet (i'm playing with windows (98 and Xp). It would be nice even to
bring up authomatically a connection, somehow like the webbrowser package
does when opening a "http" url) before trying to send the message.

TIA, Max